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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society. Since 1947 ACM has provided a vital forum for the exchange of information, ideas, and discoveries. Today, ACM serves a membership of computing professionals and students in more than 100 countries in all areas of industry, academia, and government.

The ACM Ibadan Nigeria Chapter is the local chapter providing Computer and Information Technology support to Nigerians through networking forum, conferences, workshop, professional development and certification training. We also link our members with colleagues all over the world

Ibadan ACM Chapter in collaboration with UI department of Computer Science presents a free short-course, workshop, and roundtables in the areas of big data, design thinking & collaborative problem-solving, and women in technology.

Date: July 10-15 2017.
Venue: University of Ibadan
Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Endowment fund, Google, and Stanford University, the course will be offered by Professor Jennifer Widom (http://www.professorwidom.org/), a Stanford computer science professor, school of engineering dean, and MOOC pioneer. She began the odyssey full-time during her 2016-17 sabbatical and plans to continue on an occasional basis.

Free lunch, coffee, tea and snacks will be provided to all participants. In addition, Travel stipend, free accommodation and meals will be provided for students that attend.

If you are interested in attending, kindly fill the application form online at:

http://tinyurl.com/lx99buf

Deadline for application: June 23, 2017

Space is limited so plan to register early
For more information, contact Dr Oladosu on +2348034556065 / johnoladosu@gmail.com or send an email to Dr Folajimi at yetunde@acm.org